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What about red haired dude & Brown haired dude from the church they didn't know about this?
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What will happen after that ?. Will people know how shady the church is ?. Will Claude get banned from the kingdom or loose his title ?.
Do you have the novel??
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the reason ivona returned to the past is because of claude.. he was secretly interested with ivona in their first life.. obviously, claude wasn't aware that he was inlove with her.. but when the war was over, the emperor asked what he wanted for a reward so he asked for the head high priest/pope to cure ivona... at that time ivona is dying for over using mana.. and the priest honestly told him it was already too late for ivona, and asked the duke if he love ivona for him to use this reward for her, which he answered as he didn't but the priest think otherwise.. so he suggested to claude of another "METHOD" to save her.. and that is to eat the demon's heart.. and claude gladly accepted that and thus, time rewind to the time when the demon king is being resurrected, but claude couldn't remember everything from the past.. he does have dreams but he wasn't sure if it's true or not, or why he was having a dream of ivona before even they met..
the church is shady and yes, i think they are the antagonist of the story.. they wanted to have more power to rule the land and so to gain more, they needed popularity and praise from the citizens.. so they planned to summon the demon king and act as the hero who defeated it.. but since in the first life, the one who gained the praise is gaspar, it didn't go as their planned and it's all because they didn't expect ivona to become a great summoner.. so instead they manipulate Claude's emotion that lead him to eat the demon's heart.. of course this time they are planning on using Claude as the scapegoat.. claude will eventually be overcome by the demon's power.. so they were hoping for the demon king to resurrect using Claude's body.. and since the demon's magic and holy power isn't compatible with each other, Claude's body is rejecting the holy sword and now he can't use it.. that is also what the church wanted... so they plan on killing the duke and blaming ivona to be the reason why the duke became "CORRUPTED WITH EVIL".. since summoning is like a gamble you can never be sure who you will summon, it can either be a demon or a divine creature.. but in the end, ivona will help claude to remove the demon's power within him..